BERLIN SENSATION.
REMARKABLE FRAUD OR HARD SHIP. By 'Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Berlin, Nov. 26.
It is stated that a sensational trial in Berlin resulted in the acquittal of the Count and Countess Ivemalecki on a charge of putting forward a child not their own as the heir to their estates at Wrableswa, German Poland. The public first believed the Countes guilty, especially owing to one women swearing tfiat her dead mother confessed to procuring a child for the Countess. Opinions favored the Countess. After the finding of the Commission appointed to test the physical resemblance between the Countess and the child was made known sympathy strengthened owing to the prosecution brow-beat-ing and arresting her witness for perjury. Counsel for the prosecution in an impas" sioned speech, urged that unless a verdict of guilty was pronounced a death blow would be given to trial by a jury. Forces of police were held in reserve in expecta-
tion that a conviction would lead to a public demonstration. The charges of perjury were withdrawn.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1059, 28 November 1903, Page 2
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